Robert Rotz

Robert Rotz

@njrob.bsky.social

Interests: Public policy, politics, process theology, & pickleball. For democracy and decency & resisting the authoritarian stone cold liar.

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Too many people, including some news media, let the truth be trampled upon without thought for what is happening to us and our nation.

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6 hours ago

Every. Word. Here. Is. A. Lie. Every. Fucking. Word.

The only question that matters is this: Will the people who voted for him finally give a damn about being lied to all the time? Yes or no?

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8 hours ago
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Trump’s military excursion, into an abyss The evident fact is that the president is nuts.

"It’s a frightening reality of the Trump regime that, as he's descended into utter incoherence & is now nothing more than an assortment of adolescent (& frequently violent) urges, the govt has been remade into a tool for the immediate satisfaction of his desires no matter how nihilistic they may be"

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2 days ago

Mary Trump: “For Donald, there is one reason and one reason alone. He's in trouble, and he knows it. This isn't simply about changing the subject. That, of course, would be bad enough. This is to keep himself and the world from knowing what an inept, depraved, compromised fraud he is."

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2 days ago

Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”

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Has any man at the very rear of his army *ever* projected such sad main character energy?

It's almost like he wants us to forget he's a draft-dodger who called our soldiers "losers" and "suckers" and plotted illegal wars of the sort he got elected promising to avoid while demanding a peace prize

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2 days ago
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LEFT: What "excursion" meant in 1886.
RIGHT: What it apparently means in 2026.

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3 days ago
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"oil prices up 50%... But I still want to emphasize one thing. Yeah, that hurts at the pump. Yeah, it sucks. But you know what's worse? War. And so we shouldn't trivialize the big issues here, which is, you know, we're at war with Iran. Big deal for young American troops. Big deal for the Iranians."

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1 week ago

A pedophile.
An adjudicated rapist.
A convicted felon.
A pathological liar.
A sociopath.
A malignant narcissist.
A sadist.
A racist.
A fascist.
A traitor.
An insurrectionist.
A war-monger.
A demagogue.
A despot.
An enemy of the Constitution.
An American nightmare.

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2 days ago

This is nuts.

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3 days ago
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"They promised us a very, very different future... That future hasn't arrived and I am frankly angry. I'm angry that these folks won't own up. I'm angry they won't tell the truth and I'm angry that this is a result of a series of absolutely insane policy blunders."

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3 days ago

If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.

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10 Years of Trump, and the Alarm Keeps Going Off Every day of the past decade has felt like Groundhog Day.

"The rise of Trump came at a time of relative peace and prosperity. We have no excuse for having succumbed to the degree we already have."

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Screenshot of a post by Acyn quoting Pete Buttigieg criticizing Trump, saying money from the Middle East is going into the Trump family’s crypto fund while Americans are being sent to the Middle East for Trump’s war. A video frame shows Buttigieg speaking.

Pete Buttigieg nails it.

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3 days ago

I’m sure Trump will figure it out.

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3 days ago
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All The Very Worst Qualities - Digby's Hullabaloo I came across this on social media and it spoke to me. I think it's right: I used to wonder how it was possible that Trump could have won in 2016, and then again in 2024, given how emotionally toxic a...

"He didn’t invent the resentment; he amplified it. He didn’t create the cruelty; he normalized it. He gave millions the intoxicating relief of hearing their ugliest impulses echoed back at rally volume...[T]rump is a symptom the deeper illness is collective."
digbysblog.net/2026/03/08/a...

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4 days ago
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“Our government is treating the suffering of the Iranian people as a backdrop for our own entertainment … But, in the end, we lose our humanity when we are thrilled by the destructive power of our military. … The longer we remain blind to the terrible consequences of war ...

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1 week ago
X.com open letter to Trump posted by UAE billionaire Khalef Almad Al Habtoor.

Worth the read. Prominent UAE billionaire Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor published an open letter to Trump.

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1 week ago
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So now we go to war because of this demented man's "feelings"?

Six Americans are already dead, and 800+ overall, because of his fucking *feelings*?

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1 week ago

I don't see that. Fetterman has long been an egocentric maverick. His stroke pushed this tendency further and in a negative direction.
Seems to me Talarico is a really liberal Christian, indicating the social consciousness of a Jimmy Carter & the smarts & outlook on religion of a John Fugelsang.

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The main thing the Hillary Clinton deposition did was remind the US that she is, was, and always will be, a superior intellect and leader to Donald Trump and any other Republican on earth.

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MARCO RUBIO:

The imminent threat was from Israel deciding to attack Iran without us and then Iran retaliating

The imminent threat was from Israel deciding to attack Iran without us

The imminent threat was from Israel deciding to attack Iran

The imminent threat was from Israel

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1 week ago
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This statement by Marco Rubio is a thing of beauty. No notes. It can be taken exactly as is and dropped into Orwell's 1984. I believe the correct Homeric adjective for military reasoning like this is "Hell-kissed."

Get thee to the Smithsonian, war crime-speak.

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1 week ago
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Imagine if we had major legacy platforms that simply told the truth.

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1 week ago

The President has launched our nation and our great military into a war of choice, risking American lives and resources, ignoring American law, and endangering our allies and partners. It does nothing to help with the urgent problems here at home that Americans face every day.

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1 week ago
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The U.S. Senate must be clear: no war with Iran.

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1 week ago
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@hillaryclinton.bsky.social: "I don't understand why it's so difficult for the press to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump is."

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